Borders of India
Political boundaries between India and neighboring territories
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Borders
Land borders
Barriers
India has constructed fences along the following borders:
- India-Bangladesh border barrier
- India–Myanmar border barrier
- India-Pakistan border barrier
Borders
India shares land borders with six sovereign nations. The state's Ministry of Home Affairs also recognizes a 106 kilometres (66 mi) land border with a seventh nation, Afghanistan, as part of its claim on the Kashmir region; however, this is disputed and the region bordering Afghanistan has been administered by Pakistan as part of Gilgit-Baltistan since 1947 (see Durand Line).
Border ceremonies
India co-hosts the joint ceremonies with the neighbouring nations at the following border crossings. The most attended and emotionally charged among these is the one at Wagha-Attari Border near Amritsar-Lahore.
Maritime borders and EEZs
Maritime borders of India are the maritime boundary recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea entails boundaries of territorial waters, contiguous zones, and exclusive economic zones. India, with its claim of a 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) territorial maritime zone and 200-nautical-mile (370 km; 230 mi) exclusive economic zone, has a more than 7,000-kilometre (4,300 mi) maritime border shared with seven nations.
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Designated border crossings
Integrated Check Posts (ICP)
India has 7 functional ICPs, and plans are underway to upgrade 13 more LCS to ICP, including 7 at borders taking total of border ICP to 14, at the cost of ₹3,005 crore (US$310 million)(56 Australian Dollars as of May 2025)(c. June 2024 ). Designated Integrated Check Posts (ICP), with both customs and immigration facilities are:
Land Customs Stations (LCS)
Border markets
This is incomplete list of designated border markets, also called bazaars and haats, established by the efforts of Ministry of External Affairs.
India–Bangladesh
India–Bhutan
India-Bhutan Border Haat on India-Bhutan border are in operation, such as the Gelephu-Hatisar border market road entry point, Phuntsholing to its west and Samdrup Jongkhar to its east are two other border market road entry points into Bhutan.
India–Myanmar
India–Myanmar border Haats are.
In popular media
Pradeep Damodaran's book Borderlands: Travels Across India's Boundaries chronicles all land borders of India. The Bollywood director J. P. Dutta has specialised in making Hindi movies with India's border as a key element of the theme, his movies are Border, Refugee, LOC: Kargil, Paltan, etc.